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While in Wellington, Ohio, we talked with Rick and Linda Hatton. \u00a0 Rick facilitates a Bible Study at First United Methodist Church here and was preparing to give a Sunday Sermon tailored to the 2007 graduates. \u00a0 He gave me an advanced copy of the talk, which defined real<\/em> success in life as looking to Jesus for our source of identity, direction and meaning. \u00a0 “That meaning is to be not just ‘all you can be.’ \u00a0 If that is all you achieve in life, you may have a very comfortable life, you may have a very impressive life to others — and you will have a very poor life,” Hatton wrote. \u00a0 And he added that people should not pursue purely self oriented goals, but rather they should pursue what they discern God wants for their life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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